Growing a Sustainable City': The Question of Urban Agriculture, Paperback

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Tom SlaterIllustration(s): 8 photosNumber of pages: 258Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x ...

We are what we eat, but do you know what you're eating? Urban agriculture is the global movement that encourages the practice of cultivating, proce...

This book maps the lived experiences surrounding three urban farms in Havana to construct a deeper understanding about the everyday life of this ci...

Carrot City is a collection of ideas, both conceptual and realized, that use design to enable sustainable food production, helping to reintroduce u...

Reducere. More than just a niche concern of a few activists, urban agriculture is a global movement that cuts across the private and public sectors, economic...

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Reducere. Sir Albert Howard presents a summary of his life's work in this book. Howard states "This law is true for soil, plant, animal, and man: the health ...

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This book engages new research into Kant and his philosophy of religion, addresses the lack of analytic voices in these discussions, and puts forwa...

A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the city The Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as p...

Reducere. Martin Heidegger's 1925-26 lectures on truth and time provided much of the basis for his momentous work, Being and Time. Not published until 1976 a...

Reducere. In A City on a Lake Matthew Vitz tracks the environmental and political history of Mexico City and explains its transformation from a forested, wat...

Reducere. Our food system is broken, and it's endangering what's most precious to us: our environment, our health, our soil and water, and our future. In rec...

Reducere. How Malabar Farm pioneered soil conservation and grew the sustainable agriculture movement Established in 1939 by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and...

In "The Secret of Growing True Love That Lasts, " Jim & Carol Steffen share the simple single question a day to grow True Love That Lasts a little ...

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The questions of what psychoanalysis is, and does, and who can and should practice it, remains key within the modern profession. Has the invaluable...

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Reducere. DescriptionIngo Swann -- renowned psi researcher -- reveals a long-held secret series of experiences with a "deep black" agency whose apparent char...

Reveals the intimate connection between beauty and the philosophical life. What Plato meant by beauty is not easily characterized, this work shows ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Richard (University of Strathclyde, UK) FinlayIllustration(s): 5 bw illusNumber of pages: ...

Lessons from the Hindu culture are used to teach the world methods of sustainability.Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyAuthor(s): Vandana ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe struggle for Palestinian sovereignty has been a quest for inclusion in-and recognition from-a world order that left them behind. Sov...

DescriptionFew philosophers held greater fascination for Jacques Derrida than Martin Heidegger, and in this book we get an extended look at Derrida...

This book aims to change the terms of the debate on animism, arguing that if animism has one outstanding feature, it is its peculiar restrictivenes...

Animal Alterity uses readings of science fiction texts to explore the centrality of animals for our ways of thinking about human.Publisher: Liverpo...

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Uses three country cases to highlight the importance of securing collective tenure rights in meeting REDD+ goals. Nepal's case demonstrates a commu...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Marijn de (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) JongNumber of pages: 328Collection: T&T Clark ...

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This book explores how phenomenology - the study of how the world shows itself to conscious experience - can provide new insights into acting and t...

'I was 11 years old. I witnessed the mindless cruelty of human beings. The only peace was when I was surrounded by the dead.'Publisher: The History...

Discover how these brilliantly designed green spaces have helped improve the lives of urban dwellers all over the Arab World, the Middle East and t...

"The definitive account of the organized destruction of the Ottoman Armenians . . . No future discussion of the history will be able to ignore this...

In this masterful book, Peter Gordon offers a highly original account of the intertwined histories of religion and secular modernity. With clarity ...

Explores the curious prevalence of bodily metaphors in conceptions of noncorporeal institutions: the state, the law, and politics itself. The book ...

The author shares an untold narrative of heredity, an active topic of inquiry long before Gregor Mendel planted his peas. This story involves the s...

Reducere. The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new for...

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Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co IncNumber of pages: 324Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 257 x 283 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackEd...

This new volume looks at the evolution and challenges of sustainable agriculture, a field that is growing in use and popularity. Sustainable Agricu...

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